flipp525 wrote:Cinderella Liberty (1973) comes on tonight at 10pm on TCM. Not necessarily an obscure, hard-to-locate but it does feature Marsha Mason in a performance that netted her her first Oscar nomination (for those missing that on).

Mason was pretty big during her years with Neil Simon - her 4 nominations attest to that. I liked her although she's now pretty much ridiculed not unlike Norma Shearer to a certain extent. Probably because of their association with a more famous husband.

Or possibly because she wasn't a very good actress.

This performance in Cinderella Liberty is actually the exception, for me -- it, and maybe Blume in Love, are the only times I genuinely liked her.

flipp525 wrote:Cinderella Liberty (1973) comes on tonight at 10pm on TCM. Not necessarily an obscure, hard-to-locate but it does feature Marsha Mason in a performance that netted her her first Oscar nomination (for those missing that on).

Mason was pretty big during her years with Neil Simon - her 4 nominations attest to that. I liked her although she's now pretty much ridiculed not unlike Norma Shearer to a certain extent. Probably because of their association with a more famous husband.

Cinderella Liberty (1973) comes on tonight at 10pm on TCM. Not necessarily an obscure, hard-to-locate but it does feature Marsha Mason in a performance that netted her her first Oscar nomination (for those missing that on).

"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."

I'm wondering how close Christopher Walken might've been to a supporting nomination for Pennies from Heaven that year. As I recall, he has a pretty great cameo in which he's dancing in the rain. He was still a pretty recent winner in that category at the time so I can't imagine him not, at least, being on the edges of the conversation for that not-particularly-competitive race.

"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."

Big Magilla wrote:Something's a little off with TCM here. Pennies from Heaven runs 81 minutes. It's not going to fill a two hour and forty-five minute time slot. You might want to tune in at 5 A.M. on the 20th to see what they're really doing with it.

It's not the Crosby Pennies from Heaven; rather, the Steve Martin one, which runs somewhat longer (108 minutes), but still well short of the 2:45 time slot that was meant to contain The Patent Leather Kid.

By "tune in at 5AM", I presume you mean DVR it; I haven't seen 5AM from the wake-up side in a long time.

I didn't realize The Patent Leather Kid was that obscure. I've had it on DVD for years, but I don't think it's the complete version which is supposed to run 150 minutes.

Something's a little off with TCM here. Pennies from Heaven runs 81 minutes. It's not going to fill a two hour and forty-five minute time slot. You might want to tune in at 5 A.M. on the 20th to see what they're really doing with it.

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire

Mister Tee wrote:The TCM 31 Days of Oscar has, as you'd expect, mostly things many of us have seen long ago. But they've got one film on schedule that's brand-new for me, and I'd guess for most others:

Monday, February 20, 5AM ET -- The Patent Leather Kid, one of the two silents that put Richard Barthelmess among the first Oscar year's best actor nominees.

And now I'm obliged to report that they've, with no explanation, removed the film from the schedule. If you're watching any TCM this month, you know they're doing a alphabetical A-Z schedule, and the slot between A Patch of Blue and Penny Serenade that was filled with The Patent Leather Kid now shows Pennies from Heaven (a movie well worth seeing, but not the historical get that Patent Leather Kid would have been).

Patent does seem to have suddenly emerged from the shadows -- YouTube links claim it can be streamed at some not-too-distant future time -- so maybe this is just a deferral, not a cancellation.

The Star Witness and Hide-Out are certainly obscure, but the others should be familiar to anyone who watches TCM on a regular basis as they're all pretty much in heavy rotation.

One Way Passage , A Foreign Affair and Pat and Mike are genuine classics and Bachelor Mother is a near-classic. Our Dancing Daughters made a star of Joan Crawford, but Anita Page is the film's standout. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet is one of Warner Bros. better biographical dramas and The Blue Dahlia is an outstanding film noir. The War Against Mrs. Hadley gives Fay Bainter a rare starring role.

The only two I don't recommend, except for those who need to see everything nominated for an Oscar, are Comrade X, which is a second-rate Ninotchka and Tom, Dick and Harry which was cornball nonsense even then.

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire